| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die. Canto iii. St. 86. 16. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Canto iii. St. 88. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'T is that I may not weep. Don Juan. Canto iv.... | |
| 1874 - 900 pages
...himself in his art, so he who wishes to learn how to think must take the pen and do honest work. " But words are things, and a small drop of ink Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produce* That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think." I shall conclude this part of my subject... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1875 - 444 pages
...source Of other's feeling ; but they are such liars, And take all colours — like the hands of dyers. But words are things ; and a small drop of ink, Falling,...reduces Frail man, when paper — even a rag like this, Survives himself, his tomb, and all that's his. And when his bones are dust, his grave a blank, His... | |
| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die. Canto iii. St. 86. 16. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think Canto iii. St. 88. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'T is that I may not weep. Don Juan. Canto iv.... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...Hudibras. Words so debased and hard, no stone Was hard enough to touch them on. BUTLER : Hudibras. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. BYRON. The strongest love hath yet, at times, A weakness in its'pow'r; And latent sickness often sends... | |
| LORD BYRON - 1875 - 418 pages
...these times he might have done mnch worse: His strain display'd some feeling—right or wrong; Bnt words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, npon a thonght, prodnces That which makes thonsands, perhaps millions, think; 'Tis strange, the shortest... | |
| James Willis Westlake - 1876 - 168 pages
...words as with sunbeams — the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. SOUTHRY. Words.} XXXIX. But words are things ; and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. BYRON : Don yuan Falsehood.} XL. A lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright; But... | |
| Thomas Percy, Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1876 - 572 pages
...what is written than is sometimes supposed, but still there is an important reflex action, and — " Words are things, and a small drop of ink Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." There are recorded instances of the powerful influence of ballads, and we know how much Dibdin's sea... | |
| Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1876 - 686 pages
...Soule — Emma Molloy — Pauline W. Davis — Jane G. Swisshehn — Amelia Bloomer, and others. " Words are things ; and a small drop of Ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." BvKOK. " They that handle the pen of the writer." — JUDGES v. 14. ~V7~ERY many women are journalists... | |
| Hugh Junor Browne - 1876 - 474 pages
...own observation, and to the truth and reality of which I feel justified in bearing testimony. — " Words are things ; and a small drop of ink Falling,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." " When distributive justice pervades the social world, virtue and morality will bloom with an immortal... | |
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